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January 25, 2025 – Eric – “Maguire – Dismas Mens House”

Posted by Tim on January 29, 2025

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November 24, 2014 – Karina -Theme On Community

Posted by Tim on November 24, 2024

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May 26, 2024 – JP Cass – Unitarian Universalist Cats and Dogs

Posted by Tim on May 27, 2024

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March 17 2024 – Sunday Service Committee -How Did I Happen to Become a Unitarian Universalist?

Posted by Tim on March 18, 2024

People have come to our peculiar tradition by many paths.  For the service Kathy Harm won at the 2023 Service Auction, she has asked members of the Sunday Service Committee to speak on their journeys in becoming UUs.

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May 28, 2023 – Nancy Weis and Others – “Coming Into Summer”

Posted by Tim on June 2, 2023

Nancy Kimball, who is an active member of the UU Congregation of Glens Falls, has been licensed to rehabilitate injured birds and other small animals for many years. Most of them are released once they’re healed, but Nancy has several owls and other raptors that have become permanent residents due to injuries which are so severe that they can no longer survive in the wild. She’ll tell us about her work and she’ll bring a few birds with her (probably an adorable saw-whet owl and a kestrel). You’ll learn about a fascinating part of the ‘interdependent web of which we are a part’!

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May 14 – Eric Lawson – Your Obituary: What’s to be Said? –

Posted by Tim on May 16, 2023

Your obituary is often where a summary description of your life is found. That description of your legacy may rest in the hands of  your survivors or you may have written it before passing on. How would you like to be remembered or how might others remember you?

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April 30, 2023 – Turning Point Representatives Jennifer Losa & Ray Phillips From The Turning Point Center of Rutland

Posted by Tim on April 30, 2023

This is about a non-profit recovery center that provides a safe, friendly, fun, and substance free environment. All people in recovery, and their family and friends, can meet here for recovery support, meetings, social activities, recovery coaching, education, and advocacy. The Turning Point Center respects all paths to recovery.

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April 23, 2023 – Rebecca Mattis – “Eternal Life”

Posted by Tim on April 23, 2023

This is a combination Easter/Earth Day sermon that Rebecca wrote for a congregation in Austin, TX. Rebecca wrestles with the spiritual wound that is climate change, considering themes of death and rebirth, despair and hope, freezing and fecundity, brevity and eternity. Human behavior causes environmental destruction, yet humans are part of and subject to nature. Is it too audacious to speak of redemption?

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April 16, 2023 – Meg Baker – On Mending

Posted by Tim on April 19, 2023

We live surrounded by textiles, and we live surrounded by wear and tear. Things come apart, from seams to hearts to communities. Bringing together threads of history, community, practicality and spirituality, we weave an interdependent web to help mend ourselves and our world.

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April 9 – Karen Neller – Rebirth and Renewal

Posted by Tim on April 11, 2023

“Hope is the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul/ and sings the song without the words/ and never stops at all” — poem by Emily Dickinson.  What are symbols of rebirth and renewal for you? Longer days? New leaves? Flowers? Recovering from an illness? Bring something if you like that serves as a reminder to you of hope and rebirth and renewal. 

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